On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Michael Dale <mdale(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 04/02/2011 04:08 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
2. Creating "The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Writing MediaWiki Extensions"
and "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing MediaWiki Gadgets (in jQuery)"
+1 ... Beyond the guide we could win a lot by centralising some of the
scripts and libraries on
mediawiki.org and establishing best practices
for things like gadget localisation.
--michael
I believe Krinkle started doing that with gadgets when he was updating
them to jQuery & Resourcelorder compatibility... Although I don't know
how many sites load them remotely (like how many sites do with HotCat
from commons[1]) or just copy and paste them onto their local sites.
[1].
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-HotCat.js